MedPage Today October 8, 2023
— Anyone with a doctorate degree should have the right to use the “doctor” title
In 1967, Leonard Stein, MD, coined the term “doctor-nurse game,” which he described as clear agreement between doctors and nurses that their relationship was hierarchical and that physicians were superior. Nurses were to “be bold, have initiative, and be responsible for making important recommendations, while at the same time they had to seem passive.” A 1993 study of 100 years of the “game” by Adele Pillitteri, PhD, RN, PNP, and Michael Ackerman, PhD, RN, showed that in the late 19th century, there was more collaboration between physicians and nurses and recognition of teaching and learning relationships than in the 20th century.
In 2023, the doctor-nurse...
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